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Now as be was long in deliberating about this matter, a sedition
arose among the people within the city; Aristobulus's party being willing
to fight, and to set their king at liberty, while the party of Hyrcanus
were for opening the gates to Pompey; and the dread people were in occasioned
these last to be a very numerous party, when they looked upon the excellent
order the Roman soldiers were in. So Aristobulus's party was worsted, and
retired into the temple, and cut off the communication between the temple
and the city, by breaking down the bridge that joined them together, and
prepared to make an opposition to the utmost; but as the others had received
the Romans into the city, and had delivered up the palace to him, Pompey
sent Piso, one of his great officers, into that palace with an army, who
distributed a garrison about the city, because he could not persuade any
one of those that had fled to the temple to come to terms of accommodation;
he then disposed all things that were round about them so as might favor
their attacks, as having Hyrcanus's party very ready to afford them both
counsel and assistance.

Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.

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